Community Brag Posts

I had the wood to make this for about 2 weeks. Started on Tuesday and finished Thursday evening! I wanted the look to be different from the Apothecary look so I made the doors a little different!

My wife wanted to get a new rustic style head board in the Pottery Barn style. Thanks to your site and plans I saved around $800. My wife even made a comparison picture with my head board and two from Pottery Barn. This was my fist major project and ever since I built this, people just come to me with ideas of things to build. Now she wants a matching foot board. I love your site and it's the first place I look anytime I have a project in mind.

I wanted to make an aquarium stand and really liked Ana’s barn door cabinet (intended to house a mini-fridge and microwave). I adjusted the dimensions to match my needs, added matching baskets on the right to hold aquarium supplies, and most importantly, use the barn door on the left side to hide my canister filter, etc.

Jeremy

I had shown this plan earlier on to my bf, telling it I really like it and it would be so much cheaper to make our future rustic dining table on our own instead of buying it. He seemed reluctant.... And then, 2 months later, I come back from my parent's house in the evening to find that he has built me my rustic dining table just as I had wished! 

I modified the version of the providence table found here and on other sites to be an 8ft long table. I have found plans of a 10ft table with 4x4s as the base and then the 8ft version was with doubled 2x4's. But i wanted to have a 8ft table with 4x4s so i made one. I used white pine for the table top because i wanted to stain it and then pressure treated for the bottom because i was just going to paint it. I stained the top with cabot's australian timber oil in a honey teak to match our deck, I then painted the bottom with an exterior white paint. Let me know what you think.

Minwax 'dark walnut' supports and minwax 'natural' table and seats; Minwax helmsman polyurethane gloss. 45° angled all corners and quarter round routered all top edges. Countersank screws, and added a bolt here and there on the seat supports (because UNO is a full contact sport in our house...).

The table had 8 adults on it last weekend. Would be a tight squeeze for 8 to eat dinner, but visiting over sweet-tea was perfect.

Two adults on one side only is when the table wants to go opposite of gravity.

Bed built off of plans. For one person this was a big job to finish in 3 days, but I was able to get it done before Christmas.

I doubled the size of the shelves for more storage and made 2 drawers instead of one.  Loved building this and your plan.  Don't think it turned out bad at all for my first time. This looks great in my new remodeled kithcen and all who have seen it love it and are amaze I built it myself. Thanks for sharing your plan. 

I was so inspired by this site, I just had to try something out for my self! Being a beginner it was a little difficult trying to get the notches perfect without the correct tools! A table saw is neccessary but me and the fiance kept at it! After all assembled we banged up the table with some heavy duty chains, Gave it two coats of Minwax Dark Walnut, and finished with 2 coats of Minwax Poly Satin finish. We left out center support so we could get it in the house and installed once it was in, this is one heavy sturdy piece of furniture!

My husband and I needed a new coffee table. While browsing this website we found one we liked. We changed it up a little to make it taller. Hubby also added more wood inside of the table to make it heavier.

Took the general dimensions from these reclaimed wood plans and modified them to include a chevron back. The most difficult aspect was determining the cut marks for each chevron piece and rounding the edges to bring out the details.

Finished the headboard with a satin-finish, oil-based enamel paint.

Additional pictures and information available on my website.

I really liked the look of the kitchen island in the plans, but we needed something longer, so I added 2' to the length, an extra drawer, and some supports in the center (worried the shelves might sag otherwise). We also wanted an overhang for stools, so I added a foot to the width and some decorative corbels. For the top we used reclaimed bowling alley wood. A really fun project and were really happy with it. Thanks for the plans!

My 5 year old son wanted a "Lego Creation Display Thing" to exhibit all his hard work with his beloved Legos. I knew this plan was perfect.

After styling it for the photo, I didn't want to give it to him, but keep it for myself instead! I think I need to build another one. Or two.

The building only took a few hours, but I spent a LOT of time on sanding and painting it perfectly for a professional finish.

I bought 1x8s instead of 1x4s and ripped them on my table saw, becasue I was able to get straighter boards that way and it was a tad cheaper.

(Bonus Brag: I refinished and reupholstered that blue chair!)

Built the porch swing and was inspired to build the glider frame by another "Brag Post" Looks great and fits perfectly in my back yard!